Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport
9:00 am
Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I am trying to thrash out here how one arrives at what is the priority and what has the greatest impact in as short a period of time as possible. I am merely saying that, looking at the analysis - I do not want in any way to sound crass or to deviate from the point that every life lost is one too many - I am not entirely convinced that the Minister's most effective measure is to target the 51 mg to 80 mg bracket with a change in the ramification. In as short a piece of legislation, the Minister could have a far greater impact on driver behaviour and on the resultant figures. I do not think that has being considered. I have not seen it in a regulatory impact analysis. I have not seen that looked at at all.
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